These are definitely broken:
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A simple question, and I mean no offense by this, but: what EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish? This spaghetti chain of aliasing and forwarding doesn’t seem like an intentional configuration.
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Earlier today I mistakenly contacted godaddy support for help. They had no idea what they were doing and actually fucked up the configuration leading to that error page lol. I have fixed everything and it is back to normal. @griffin No offense taken. It is quite a conveluded situation. I will do my best to explain:
I have two domains:
www.techmasterdesign.com
www.groupfinder.cc
I want www.groupfinder.cc to have its own CNAME so that when people go to www.groupfinder.cc, they see www.groupfinder.cc in the URL bar. I also DO NOT want to use masking on godaddy, because that will omit the subdirectories or forumpost?=3049290 tags from the end of the URL. As of now, when you go to www.groupfinder.cc, it is just a simple redirect to www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder and the URL changes immediately after the redirect. The only problem is that godaddy CNAME WWW values ONLY accept root domains (IE. www.techmasterdesign.com, not www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder) so it is a huge mess and I think the best way to fix it is to create some .htaccess rules that create masking of www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder for the www.groupfinder.cc URL
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He admitted that he was using GoDaddy to do the forwarding. Messing with the DNS records (aside from MX) has been, in my personal experience, bad juju when using GoDaddy’s forwarding function. In my experience they don’t let you forward PART of a domain (meaning forward the apex and not the subdomains).
this is exactly correct, and the issue i'm running into. I can't create a CNAME WWW record with the value: GroupFinder for the domain www.groupfinder.cc
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Nah, I think he is trying to use a web page to forward where a CNAME would work MUCH better.
[LE will NOT follow a webpage forward]
a CNAME is exactly what i'm trying to do if it were possible for a subdirectory/subdomain.
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CNAMEs are for FQDNs
A subdirectory is a folder located at an FQDN - there is no CNAME way to do individual “folders”.
A subdomain is an entirely separate FQDN and can be CNAMEd to from any other FQDN*
Note: * if you are trying to CNAME from an apex record (the root of another domain), you may run into some issues. Like:
You need “other” records associated to the apex and CNAME takes the whole thing.
What happens to those other records (like TXT, NS, MX) for that original domain?
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Yeah I have no idea why there are different IP’s considering the groupfinder.cc website just forwards to the techmasterdesign.com website. The only thing I can think of is that the A record associated with the domain without the WWW. only accepts an IP address, which would point to my root index (www.techmasterdesign.com) and the CNAME WWW record (with the www.) does not accept a subdirectory, only a root level domain. So since the CNAME and the A record are different, the IP’s are different according to whether or not you type in www or not.
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The www seems to have multiple IPs (A records) entered.
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Can you layout all the names and how you would like them to “function” ?
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Yeah I think that could also be the stuff that godaddy fucked up (different IP’s on the A records - one that just doesn’t work or point to anything - wtf were they doing) that I can’t revert on my end. Will have to call them to get that fixed…
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If you control the DNS zone, then you can add/edit/delete it yourself.
No need to wait for support to get back to you…
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I tried to edit the A record they created, but only the A record I created is editable, along with the CNAME I created. The A Record they created is undelitable and uneditable. 
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Did you choose something like “domain forwarding” elsewhere?
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www.techmasterdesign.com -> should point to root /var/www/index.html and root dir as it does
www.groupfinder.cc -> should point to /var/www/groupfinder on the webserver, this can be accomplished by forwarding it to http://gscottmalibu.mynetgear.com/groupfinder (dynamic DNS), or http://www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder (godaddy domain)
I just don’t want to use godaddy masking because if someone copies the www.groupfinder.cc/thread-4.html URL, the contents after the / in the URL will be ommited, because of masking :(. Also, i’d prefer if the www.groupfinder.cc website didn’t have techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder displayed in the URL bar, i’d prefer it to have groupfinder.cc displayed in the URL bar.
I also want to modify my .htaccess somehow, or do whatever I have to do so that certbot will recognize the www.groupfinder.cc domain
Also, I can’t use a subdirectory in a CNAME (so i can’t add gscottmalibu.mynetgear.com/groupfinder or http://www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder to the CNAME WWW value, because it will only accept a root level domain, without a subdirectory.
One thing i’ve tried was creating a subdomain on www.techmasterdesign.com, called groupfinder.techmasterdesign.com. This subdomain (groupfinder.techmasterdesign.com) points to www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder. The CNAME WWW value accepts subdomains, and I set this up but it just returned an error 404.
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No domain forwarding elsewhere.
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Bad implementation:
And you shouldn't have to (at all) for what you're trying to accomplish.
That seems impossible.
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That seems impossible.
I think it is, but perhaps the subdomain groupfinder.techmasterdesign.com can point to GroupFinder (dynamic DNS URL).
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You are mixing DNS functions and WEB server functions like that are interchangeable.
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www.groupfinder.cc -> should point to /var/www/groupfinder on the webserver, this can be accomplished by forwarding it to http://gscottmalibu.mynetgear.com/groupfinder (dynamic DNS), or http://www.techmasterdesign.com/groupfinder (godaddy domain)
Please suggest a good implementation as you say this is a “bad implementation”
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Let’s begin at the beginning.
Let’s start with:
What domain names do you have?
And what do you want to do with them?
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